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Military Social Work- Assignment: Family Suicide Risk Intervention Plan

Supporting a loved one in the military is truly a duty of its own. It is even more so if the military personnel suffers from trauma related to their military experiences. As a helping professional taking this course, it is likely you have studied suicide, motivations for suicide, ideations, assessments, and interventions.Think about what the family of an active duty military personnel or a veteran might face if their loved one becomes suicidal. How does the family react? What recourse does a family have? Could it be different for active duty personnel versus a veteran? For this Assignment, review this week’s resources.

The Assignment (1 page):

  • Craft a support plan for a military family.
    • Include strategies or steps for military families for intervening with the loved one who may be suicidal.
    • Consider this plan if the individual is active military and how a military command might play a role and if the individual is a retired veteran. How might a command impede or encourage an active duty member to get treatment?
    • Support your strategies with two scholarly articles. Provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.

Military Personnel And Suicide

Serving in the military comes with a great deal of stress and crisis. It can range from combat duty to multiple deployments, concerns about family, and physical health to name a few.

There is a stark reality with military service and veterans that suicide and suicidal ideations occur and have increased since 2006. What are the contributing factors of this increase in completed suicides and suicidal ideations? Are veterans more likely to hurt themselves than active duty personnel? For this Discussion, review this week’s resources and consider how helping professionals, military installations, the Department of Defense, or community outreach programs might help to change negative perceptions about suicide.

Post one risk factor that contributes to suicide risk for active duty military personnel and veterans. Include whether you think active military or veterans are at a higher risk for suicide and why. Explain how helping professionals, military commands, or the Department of Defense can change the negative perceptions of military and veterans seeking help for suicide risk. Finally, explain one prevention method you might develop to increase awareness about active military or veteran suicide risk and explain why this might be effective. Select one scholarly article to support your response.

Provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.

Evaluation And Self Assessment

This assignment is regarding the Master of Social Work required field placement.

FIELD PLACEMENT:  Unity Home

Domestic violence outreach and shelter for men, women, and children. 

Throughout the past nine weeks, you have had the ability to apply social work practice skills in a real-world setting. At the end of your placement, your supervisor completed a final evaluation of your practice skills.

Having had the chance to review your final evaluation, you will now synthesize the results of your evaluation to help you self-assess your field education experience. By performing the self-assessment, you will evaluate your professional development as a future social worker.

For this assignment, reflect on your field education experience. Consider the skills that you have developed and how they might contribute to your professional identity as a social worker. Reflect on what you hope to learn in your concentration year experience.

As you review your evaluation, the opportunity to engage in personal professional development should remain a consideration for the remainder of your program.

For this Assignment, reflect on your field education experience. Review the results of your final evaluation and reflect on what you would like to gain in future field education experiences.

Note: You should receive your final evaluation from you field instructor.

EVALUATION ATTACHED

The Assignment: (4–5 pages)

  • Explain whether you demonstrated social work practice skills throughout your field education experience, including a description of each social work practice skill and the measure(s) provided in the final evaluation.
  • Explain how participation in your field education course might help with future field experiences.
  • Describe potential areas where you might need improvement in relation to social work practice skills.
  • Explain how your next field education experience might address those areas.
  • Explain how you have grown as a professional during this process.
  • Propose personal action plans for future field experiences.
  • Be sure to submit the results of your evaluation to this Assignment.